I thought I'd have a play with the carbs on the 1100. I had a good look around them, but can't find any mixture screws. Any ideas where they'll be? Anyway, I took the tops of the carbs and dropped the needles a notch, thinking this would give less petrol and more air (its running rich you see). I thought it was a good sign when I had to turn the idle down after starting the bike. What a difference, much more responsive. There is still a slight flat spot at the higher revs though. I'll have to check to colour of the plugs tomorrow now, but hopefully I've sorted it. That's the last time I let the garage clean my carbs. Bloody monkeys. -- AndyH, MIB#15 Suz GSX1100F {) Suz GS550 Katana '82 Black Suz GS550 Katana '84 Silver (in kit form) MZ ETZ125 (and still in bits) CG125 (Son's, but its still in my garage)
What about a company that SPECIALISES in fuel injection not being able to trace a fuelling fault which turned out to be two injecters connected arse about face? 5 should've been 6 and 6 should've been 5. Two wires, two weeks and close on 200 quid later it was sorted. That sort of crap stopped me using "specialists" ever again. -- Kev "Blitzed" Max (in the UK) VROC #11799 http://www.chicago106miles.com/Blitzed/ '92 VN 750 (Blitzed spec) Holographic Flake/Paint After market pipes Single seated Polished everywhere Screen/Heated grips Father of the painter at www.sprayteck.com
Strange. What were the symptoms? What engine? Last time I looked at a fool infection wiring diagram it was batch rather than sequential injection so all six squirted at the same time, with no problems.
200 quid for two weeks work? At 35 quid an hour they must have been sitting on their hands for a while.
Fix it myself As it turned out, they "found" the fault by accident and I'm sure I can have accidents like that every now and again) This was the first vehicle I'd worked onn which had a fuel injecting problem and I'm not altogether au fait with FI (well I wasn't then, although I'm still no expert with it) but I tend to look at the fuse first if something electrical doesn't work, and checking the wires are in the right place early on MAY not be a bad idea either when looking for a fault which includeselectronics. If the "specialists" had done that, it's possible that they could have sorted the problem sooner and less expensively. I'll stick with carbs though ) -- Kev "Blitzed" Max (in the UK) VROC #11799 http://www.chicago106miles.com/Blitzed/ '92 VN 750 (Blitzed spec) Holographic Flake/Paint After market pipes Single seated Polished everywhere Screen/Heated grips Father of the painter at www.sprayteck.com
Engine ran smooth but totally gutlessly. What engine? "Essex" V6 in a Sierra fourbie. Apparently not the case with the fourbie though, coz when the back two injector wires were swapped, the engine was as it should be. Smooth and plenty (well "plenty") of power. -- Kev "Blitzed" Max (in the UK) VROC #11799 http://www.chicago106miles.com/Blitzed/ '92 VN 750 (Blitzed spec) Holographic Flake/Paint After market pipes Single seated Polished everywhere Screen/Heated grips Father of the painter at www.sprayteck.com
I actually don't think they spent ANY serious time on it, It appeared to be that they checked it, couldn't find the problem and left it sitting for two weeks. The problem was REALLY simple (if you knew about it-) and according to one of the guys who worked there, when we rang to say we were coming to collect the car, they had another go at it and re-connected the back two injector connectors the RIGHT way (accidentally) as opposed to the way they'd taken them off, and the thing ran sweetly again. I don't mind paying for expertise, and I don't mind paying for accidental solutions either, but I draw the line at recommending anyone go to a company that misses basic things. -- Kev "Blitzed" Max (in the UK) VROC #11799 http://www.chicago106miles.com/Blitzed/ '92 VN 750 (Blitzed spec) Holographic Flake/Paint After market pipes Single seated Polished everywhere Screen/Heated grips Father of the painter at www.sprayteck.com
No wonder they couldn't fix it. An XR4x4 has a Cologne V6 with mechanical fuel injection. Didn't you think it odd when you took the wires off and petrol came out of them?
It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Beav" Nope. Cologne V6, you mean; a totally different lump of scrap. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10
